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A trio of Napanee Express players have been named to Softball Canada’s U23 National Team selection camp, which will run Sept. 30-Oct. 3 in Saskatoon, Sask.
Napanee’s Connor Brooks and Riley Manion, both pitchers, along with Brendan Hagerman, a catcher, are among 24 athletes from across the country named to the camp. The athletes were selected by the U23 Men’s National Team coaching staff – consisting of head coach Doug Allin and assistant coaches Dean Holoien and Mark Quinn – following a series of regional identification camps that were held across the country earlier this summer and scouting at the recently concluded Rawlings Grand Slam event held in Saskatoon. All three Napanee players were on the gold medal winning Owen Sound Selects.
Softball Canada established the U23 Men’s National Team program following the addition of that age category on the WBSC World Cup schedule. Team Canada is scheduled to compete at a Pan American continental qualifier in Colombia in the first three months of 2022. The top four teams from that event will compete in the inaugural U23 Men’s Softball World Cup in Argentina in November 2022.